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add an attachment icon picture besides the item of the attachment.
In Primo, readers often can not distinguish the difference of the book and the attachment of the book(ex: CD-ROM). So readers often request the barcode number of the attachment of the book first wrongly, and then find that they really want to request the book instead of the attachment of book(CD-ROM). I suggest the system can show an attachment icon picture(Ex: paper clip) besides the item of the attachment. It can help readers to distinguish the types of the items(book or CD-ROM attachment) quickly and correctly.
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do not show Library Scope when an institution only has one library
The new Library Scope facet for Physical holdings and Physical items search is only useful if an institution has multiple libraries. It should be possible to disable this facet if an institution only has one library.
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Show editions of books when doing a search in either Physical Title search, or Physical Items search, not just All item search
This is a more practical and efficient way of showing book's info , as the edition is not restricted to All item search.
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Allow the "Type of Unit" field in the item record to be edited in the item record rather than in the holdings record
Right now you can add the Type of Unit to the item record by adding an 85X $$o to the holdings record. If you have more than one you can do this:
853 $$8 1 $$o Ten year cumulative index
853 $$8 2 $$o Supplementthe Type of Unit will become a drop-down and you can choose.
However, this is a lot of work, and not intuitive. We would like the ability to type into the Type of Unit field in the item record.
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Avoid duplicate Item call numbers
At present, when duplicating an item, barcode is automatically generated and saved even before any changes in a duplicated item record are done. That means in practice, that if - for some reason - Item call number or any other field were not modified, duplication is created. That is a huge problem in fields that 1] require unique value, 2] there are no warnings about duplicate value in any moment of the process. Suggestion: Similar to duplicating bib record, the new barcode is created only after actual saving of the new (duplicated) item. The cataloguer will be required to generate…
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"in process items" screen - circulation desk management: adding fields
At circ desk we use "in process items" screen to manage items in circ work order processes. Unfortunately the screen is unusable, if we are processing periodicals which are sent/recieved from binding: currently there is no way to distinguish at a glance which volume it is. as we send several volumes of the same periodical at once and our physical copies of periodicals don't have barcodes/barcode numbers. so please add a description field to this screen.
another field that is necessary is: Locationyes we can see this information via 3 dots...but it is not at a glance....
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slip for items sent to binding - improvements
we send to binding not only periodical issues that are bound together. we also send individual periodical volumes/books which binding wears out. in this case there is no option to add a note for the binder - options which exists when 2 or more issues are bound together in alma.
we send to binding hundreds of items. printing out hundreds of slips, when a slip takes up the whole page - is a waste of paper. so we stuck with continuing writing the info for the binder manually, on small pieces of paper. it would be a large improvement to…
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Add 'loan date' to items list
after 6 long years, finally "due date" as added to items list..
"Loan date" field is as important to see, as the "due date". if we have 50 items which were loaned in different times, most of them can have the same due date (because we have periods of closed days-holydays). we have to be able to make the same decision, as system, regarding, which item can be recalled first, if we need to make manual request on specific item.
please consider adding this field also - and really hope it wouldn't take another 6 years1 vote -
Generate barcodes in batch
Alma can be configured to generate a unique identfier in the barcode field of the item record one record at a time. Once the configuration is set, the unique identifier can be created by clicking the Generate button or simply by clicking Save.
It would be very helpful for Alma be able to generate sequential unique identifiers for each item in a set by running a job. That way, we could create a situation where each item in Alma has a unique identifier, either a real barcode number for a real barcode attached to an item or a different unique…
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Readability of the item availability column
The Item availability column becomes illegible if it’s more than two lines long, which is often the case for Serials. It would be helpful to be able to adjust the width of the column and it would also be helpful if there could be a line break for each new 866 zone (Marc21).
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Add Process types and statuses in the menu “Manage in Process items”
It would be helpful to be able to search by Call number in the menu « Manage in Process items ».
The list of results cannot be filtered or sorted by modification date, by status or by the operator who did the last change.
The description of the item (Year, Volume, Number…) is also missing from the list and can only be seen by editing the item. It would be helpful for the resource management of serial publications.1 vote -
Process types and statuses in the list of predicted items
In the list of items, we would like to add to the customisation view the ability to see the date on which the process type was last modified. Currently, you have to edit each item and check the 'History' tab to get this information
Moreover, all the history disappears as soon as the item is received.1 vote -
Changing the rank of holdings in Alma
When a bibliographic record contains several holdings, they are displayed in random order (as far as we know).
It would be helpful to be able to change the rank of display for holdings, especially for serials, in order to show the item availability by date for a better and more logical reading.
The option is available for Primo, we would like to be able to change this configuration in Alma too.1 vote -
The generation of new predicted items takes a lot of time
Generating new predicted items for daily, weekly, monthly newspapers takes a lot of time : up to 15 minutes for some daily newspapers with numerous supplements and issues.
No message is displayed indicating that the generation is in process, which could prevent us from launching duplicate treatments.1 vote -
Import jobs with many serial issues crash
Publishing profiles at the bib level will include all items (in an ITM field with the data specified in the inventory enrichment section of the publishing profile). When trying to import these published files, if bibs for a serial have more than 50-100 items, the import job crashes with the error code like: "Import Job 3833572600004617 External system 3833573620004617 File HUscfmissingbarcode...Split file error error parsing leader with data: 14519cas a2210880 a 450"
The only current solution is to manually edit these files with an XML editor to properly split the files.
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When saving stay on same page and all tabs to be available to edit from start
Currently when a barcode is inserted in a item record (or a URL in an electronic portfolio e.g. for an ebook), it saves automatically and leaves the page immediately, but we may still want to add further information, so it would be preferable for this not to happen.
Also, the items notes and statistical fields do not exist as another tab and therefore cannot be added to until the first page of the item record is completed and saved. All tabs should be available to be filled in from the very beginning.
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Enhancement request for New MDE > Editing Actions > Expand from Template
Request for customizing the sorting and enable/disable the template options in the Choose Template dropdown list
The current sorting is starting from public ones followed by private ones, in alphanumeric order respectively.
We hope for being able to toggle enable/disable and customize the ordering of the template optionsFor achieving the above feature, refer to New MDE > New > Templates display configuration
A similar toggle button for each template, similar to the Display in Menu toggle button here, is desired.
And allowing manually sorting the order of the templates would be appreciated as well.0 votes -
Enhancement request for New MDE > Editing Actions > Expand from Template
Request for customizing the sorting and enable/disable the template options in the Choose Template dropdown list
The current sorting is starting from public ones followed by private ones, in alphanumeric order respectively.
We hope for being able to toggle enable/disable and customize the ordering of the template optionsFor achieving the above feature, refer to New MDE > New > Templates display configuration
A similar toggle button for each template, similar to the Display in Menu toggle button here, is desired.
And allowing manually sorting the order of the templates would be appreciated as well.0 votes -
Include affected barcodes or MMS IDs in Alma job reports
This is a suggestion to include affected barcodes or MMS IDs in Alma job reports, e.g. the Change holding information job. This is helpful for us to study what has happened, or to undo the commands. Currently there is not a way to retrieve affected barcodes in Alma or Analytics. There is a situation that the change holding information has affected the sister item records which are not included in the physical item set to run this job with. (In other words, when we first created the physical item set to run the Change holding information job, we did not…
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